The essence of valuable natural areas sensu stricto and sensu largo

Abstract

Nature valuable area is an area protected in any of the three forms of nature protection (spatial protection: national parks, nature reserves, landscape parks, areas of protected landscape, Nature 2000 areas; individual protection: nature monuments, documentation site, ecological sites, nature and landscape complexes and species protection of plants, animals and fungi), which is sensu stricto approach, namely a concept as such. Sensu stricto areas require legal regulations and are protected or deserve to be protected by one of the forms of nature protection. However, the following three forms of natural valuable areas (botanical gardens; green areas; woodlots and separated protected zones: recreational parks, green squares, communal parks, cultural parks, historical parks and gardens, ectones, river valleys, geoparks, small nature’s enclaves and ecological corridors) represent to wide approach to nature protection, namely sensu largo. Natural valuable areas understood sensu stricte are valuable due to preservation of nature, namely biodiversity and geodiversity. However, natural valuable areas understood sensu largo, consist in broadening the scope of the notion „natural valuable areas” to include also the areas, which are valuable not only due to biodiversity, but also due to social objectives connected with nature protection, namely anthropogenic forms resulting directly or indirectly from the human’s influence on the environment and the plants and animals living therein.